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MANY FLASH AND ONLINE ACTIVITIES FOR THIS LESSON, PLUS A LISTENING, AT:
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IN THIS LESSON:
The Reading / Tapescript 2

Phrase Match 3

Listening Gap Fill 4

Multiple Choice 5

Spelling 6

Put the Text Back Together 7

Scrambled Sentences 8

Discussion 9

Writing 10

Homework 11

ALL ANSWERS ARE IN THE TEXT ON PAGE 2.

11th November, 2009

THE READING / TAPESCRIPT
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Google is giving U.S. air passengers a holiday present of free

Internet services. The offer is for travellers who fly from 47

American airports between November 17th and January 15th.

Google also said it would provide the Internet on Virgin Atlantic

flights over the holiday season. Many people think Google is being

very generous. However, computer experts warn people to be

careful. A wireless connection is very convenient, but it is also

dangerous. It is easy for hackers to steal data from computers

that are not password protected.

What Google is doing is what the world will be like soon. One day,

there will be free Internet connections everywhere in the world.

People will not have to pay for the Internet. That will change how

we live. Everyone will be connected all the time. This is a great

thing. We will have information at our fingertips any time we

need it. It’s difficult to imagine how this will change our world.

Our lives will be quite different. Maybe students will study at

home, with the teacher on a video screen and their classmates as

avatars. All of this change will be very exciting.

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PHRASE MATCH
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Match the following phrases from the article.

Paragraph 1

1. air a. connection

2 The offer is b. protected

3. over the holiday c. steal data

4. A wireless d. passengers

5. easy for hackers to e. season

6. password f. for travellers

Paragraph 2

1. what the world will be a. our fingertips

2 pay b. imagine

3. information at c. screen

4. Everyone will be d. like soon

5. difficult to e. connected

6. video f. for the Internet

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LISTENING GAP FILL
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Google is giving U.S. air passengers a holiday _______________

Internet services. _______________ travellers who fly from 47

American airports between November 17th and January 15th.

Google _______________ would provide the Internet on Virgin

Atlantic flights over the holiday season. Many people think Google

_______________ generous. However, computer experts warn

people to be careful. A wireless connection _______________,

but it is also dangerous. It is easy for hackers _______________

computers that are not password protected.

What Google is doing is what the world _______________. One

day, there will be free Internet connections everywhere in the

world. People will _______________ for the Internet. That will

change how we live. Everyone will be connected all the time. This

is a great thing. We will have information _______________ any

time we need it. It’s difficult to imagine _______________ our

world. Our lives will be quite different. Maybe students will study

at home, with the teacher _______________ and their

classmates as avatars. _______________ will be very exciting.

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MULTIPLE CHOICE
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Google is giving U.S. (1) ____ passengers a holiday present of free Internet
services. The offer is for travellers who (2) ____ from 47 American airports
between November 17th and January 15th. Google also said it would provide
the Internet on Virgin Atlantic flights (3) ____ the holiday season. Many
people think Google is being very generous. However, computer experts
warn people to be (4) ____. A wireless connection is very convenient, but it
is also dangerous. It is easy for (5) ____ to steal data from computers that
are not password protected.

What Google is doing is what the world will be like (6) ____. One day, there
will be free Internet connections everywhere in the world. People will not
have to (7) ____ for the Internet. That will change how we live. Everyone
will be connected all the (8) ____. This is a great thing. We will have
information at our fingertips any time we need it. It’s difficult to imagine
how this will change our world. Our lives will be (9) ____ different. Maybe
students will study at home, with the teacher on a video screen and their
classmates (10) ____ avatars. All of this change will be very exciting.

Put the correct words from this table into the article.
1. (a) air (b) fair (c) hair
2. (a) flyer (b) flew (c) fly
3. (a) under (b) over (c) around
4. (a) careful (b) cared (c) careless
5. (a) hacker (b) hacked (c) hackers
6. (a) soon (b) soonish (c) sooner
7. (a) paid (b) pay (c) pays
8. (a) timely (b) timing (c) time
9. (a) quit (b) quite (c) quiet
10. (a) as (b) has (c) was

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SPELLING
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Spell the jumbled words (from the text) correctly.

Paragraph 1

1. air nerassspge

2. free Internet eievssrc

3. the holiday oesans

4. warn people to be refulca

5. aerhcsk to steal data

6. sarsdowp protected

Paragraph 2

7. fere Internet connections

8. gchaen how we live

9. information at our psiirtefgn

10. difficult to eniiagm

11. a video cenrse

12. this change will be very igeixnct

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PUT THE TEXT BACK TOGETHER
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Number these lines in the correct order.

( ) Internet on Virgin Atlantic flights over the holiday

season. Many people think Google is being very

( ) time we need it. It’s difficult to imagine how this will

change our world. Our lives will be quite different.
Maybe

( ) What Google is doing is what the world will be like soon.

One day, there will be free Internet

( ) connections everywhere in the world. People will not

have to pay for the Internet. That will change how we

( 1 ) Google is giving U.S. air passengers a holiday present

of free Internet services. The offer is for travellers who
fly

( ) live. Everyone will be connected all the time. This is a

great thing. We will have information at our fingertips
any

( ) generous. However, computer experts warn people to

be careful. A wireless connection is very convenient, but
it

( ) students will study at home, with the teacher on a video

screen and their classmates as avatars. All of this
change will be very exciting.

( ) is also dangerous. It is easy for hackers to steal data

from computers that are not password protected.

( ) from 47 American airports between November 17th and

January 15th. Google also said it would provide the

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THE READING / TAPESCRIPT
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With a partner, put the words back into the correct order.

1. holiday . present air Giving a passengers U.S.

2. fly who Travellers airports American 47 from.

3. Computer careful be to people warn experts.

4. warn to careful Experts people be.

5. computers protected that are Data not from password.

6. be will There everywhere connections Internet free.

7. the People have for not pay Internet will to.

8. live That change we will how.

9. our at information have will We fingertips.

10. will All be of very this exciting change.

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DISCUSSION (Write your own questions)
STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

1. ________________________________________________________

2. ________________________________________________________

3. ________________________________________________________

4. ________________________________________________________

5. ________________________________________________________

6. ________________________________________________________
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DISCUSSION (Write your own questions)

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)

1. ________________________________________________________

2. ________________________________________________________

3. ________________________________________________________

4. ________________________________________________________

5. ________________________________________________________

6. ________________________________________________________

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WRITING
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Write about the Internet for 10 minutes. Show your

partner your paper. Correct each other’s work.

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HOMEWORK

1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words

from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or
another search engine) to build up more associations /
collocations of each word.

2. INTERNET: Search the Internet and find more information

about Google. Talk about what you discover with your partner(s)
in the next lesson.

3. MAGAZINE ARTICLE: Write a magazine article about the

Internet. Include imaginary interviews with people who know
what the future of the Internet looks like. Read what you wrote to
your classmates in the next lesson. Give each other feedback on
your articles.

4. WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? Write a newspaper article about

the next stage in this news story. Read what you wrote to your
classmates in the next lesson. Give each other feedback on your
articles.

5. LETTER: Write a letter to the boss of Google. Ask him/her

three questions about Google. Give him/her three of your
opinions on how to make it better. Read what you wrote to your
classmates in the next lesson. Your partner will answer the
questions you asked.

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